White nationalist to speak about diversity at University of Alabama

[babylonsister]

White nationalist to speak about diversity at University of Alabama
Jared Taylor will reportedly talk about whether "diversity is a strength."
Luke Barnes
Apr 2, 2018, 2:50 pm


A prominent white nationalist and pseudo-academic is set to give a speech at the University of Alabama (UA) where he will reportedly talk about whether “diversity is a strength.”

Jared Taylor, the publisher of the white nationalist magazine American Renaissance is set to speak at UA on April 19, according to AL.com. He was initially invited by a group called Students for America First, which claims to be a pro-free speech organization “protecting and promoting the American ideals of free speech and civil public discourse.”

University of Alabama administrators are categorically opposed to Taylor’s visit. “Many in the campus community, including campus leadership, have strong feelings against the messages this person may espouse,” University President Stuart R. Bell said in a statement. “Our community is diverse, inclusive and accepting, and we are committed to treating one another respectfully.”

Students for America First maintained that they were simply wanted to ensure free speech for all on the university campus, regardless of the ideas. “We believe that [it] is our right as Americans to decide for ourselves what ideas are right and which wrong,” SFAF told Talking Points Memo. “Not to have that decision made for us by the media and our universities.”

Taylor’s impending visit to the University of Alabama is reminiscent of Richard Spencer’s now defunct college speaking tour. Because they’re state entities, schools like the University of Alabama or the University of Florida (which Spencer visited in October) allow for greater First Amendment protections then their private counterparts.

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https://thinkprogress.org/white-nationalist-set-to-speak-at-university-of-alabama-79b6dde381e3/

[flying_wahini]

1. Ooh man, there is gonna be trouble !

Wouldn't surprise me if there's a big gathering there of tiki torches and white sheets.

[magicarpet]

2. Well.... There is a brave Nazi there.

.... or maybe a flaming idiot ?

[madinmaryland]

6. The only good Nazi is a dead Nazi.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

3. "we cherish diversity"

White people with blond hair. White people with brown hair. White people with black hair. White people with red hair.

Even white people with white or grey hair.

Or white people with no hair.

Diversity.

[gratuitous]

4. Is diversity strength?

Gee, let's look at monoculture entities, and see how that works out in practice. One specific virus can wipe out an entire population in a generation. Which is why dumbasses like Jared Taylor have to go to extraordinary lengths to inoculate themselves and their monoculture from viruses like education.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

5. Stop giving white nationalists platforms to speak.

[antifash]

7. YEAH!

There's no reason to indulge this 19 year-old's idiotic viewpoints.

[sarah FAILIN]

8. The University says they have to allow it

Something about being a public facility or something to that effect but they are asking that nobody outside that group attend as a way of limiting the speakers voice.

There is said to be other activities planned in other areas for people that are against this guy to attend and I think the hope is that the larger event will be the protest of the racist.